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Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2022

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study 'Potterian economics', the economic ideas, insights, and...

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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Ingemar Ståhl 1938-2014. A Portrait of a Political Economist in the Swedish Welfare State

Jonung, Lars - 2019

For many decades, Ingemar Ståhl was a well-known economist in Sweden. He introduced new perspectives into research, teaching and public debate. He made his presence felt in areas as diverse as housing policy, defense economics, energy policy, financial economics, industrial policy, higher...

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Rhetoric in legislative bargaining with asymmetric information

Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2010

In this paper we analyze a legislative bargaining game in which parties privately informed about their preferences bargain over an ideological and a distributive decision. Communication takes place before a proposal is offered and majority rule voting determines the outcome. When the private...

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Rhetoric in legislative bargaining with asymmetric information

Chen, Ying; Eraslan, Hülya - 2010

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Testing the TASP: An experimental investigation of learning in games with unstable equilibria

Cason, Timothy N.; Friedman, Daniel; Hopkins, Ed - 2009

We report experiments designed to test between Nash equilibria that are stable and unstable under learning. The 'TASP … equilibrium under fictitious play like learning processes. We use two 4 x 4 games each with a unique mixed Nash equilibrium; one … is stable and one is unstable under learning. Both games are versions of Rock-Paper-Scissors with the addition of a …

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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010

The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...

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War signals: A theory of trade, trust and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … that the aggressor has a low propensity to trade. Agents observe the history of conflicts and update their beliefs over … process whose frequency depends on the state of endogenous beliefs. Second, the probability of future conflicts increases …

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Intergovernmental Grants as a Tactical Instrument: Some Empirical Evidence from Swedish Municipalities

Johansson, Eva - 2001

Are grants to Swedish municipalities tactical? In this essay, I derive testable implications from a theoretical voting model and test these on a panel of 255 Swedish municipalities, 1981 - 1995. In order to decide which regions that are politically powerful, both election results, and survey...

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Why Politicians Favor Redheads - A Theory of Tactical Horizontal Redistribution.

Blomquist, Sören; Christiansen, Vidar - 2000

This paper studies a very pure form of "vote purchasing". We consider whether it may be in the interest of a party to discriminate between groups that, possibly except for size, are identical in all welfare relevant spects, i.e. the groups are assumed to have the same income, needs, etc. To...

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